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On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:28:57 +0000 (UTC)
> baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
>
> > Have you considered cloning your stable BL2 to a 1GB partition on your
> > large hard drive,
>
>   :)
>
>    My "stable" and mission critical BL2 installation is 32 GB.

I have BL2 in about 600MB including the complete glibc and gcc but not 
including the kernel source code, source for other things I have compiled, 
packages I have compiled, uclibc, midi files, and photos (another 500MB or 
so).

This even includes three versions of Opera, dosemu and some dos 
wordprocessors, and a copy of my website.

People keep giving us 8GB and larger drives (even two 60s that we fixed) 
and we can't think of what to do with them.  I use them anyway because 
they are faster than the 2GB ones (which keep dying in use, from old age).

What do you use 32GB for?

You could install a minimal BL to maybe a 1GB partition and then just add 
the 2.6 modules and programs needed for the TV tuner, and upgrade glibc 
and gcc to whatever knoppix is using once you figure it all out.  It would 
be educational and would probably boot and shut down a lot faster.

> > and then booting to it with loadlin using a 2.6 kernel
> > from knoppix, and adding the modules from knoppix, and if needed a later
> > glibc-so?
>
>   No, I haven't considered it.
Do you have a lot of time to waste?

> > 20GB seems like a lot of space to watch TV from.

>   If it was just for the sake of watching TV, then it would be easier to 
> just switch on the little digital, portable DVD/TV unit by my right 
> elbow. Which is what I do when I take a break and want to watch the 
> news, or when my wife wants to watch something else when the cricket or 
> rugby is on.  :)
>   The TV tuner card was one of the things I specified when I had this 
> high-end machine built (after receiving an inheritance in cash) 
> specifically for experimenting with Linux distros. Its purpose is for me 
> to experiment with a variety of different distros and see what I can get 
> them to do. It is for learning on, for playing with, for trying things 
> out on, and for fun.  It has a lot of grunt, a Gig of RAM, USB and 
> firewire ports everywhere, even a matched pair of SATA hard disks, so it 
> should be useful for a long time.

Sounds fun.  Do you have any preferences among the big name distros?

>   I will continue to play with this machine (in my spare time) learning 
> all the while (I hope). But now that I have found that BL is not 
> something that would be able to run a TV tuner card, then it is no 
> longer relevent to this list, so we should drop the subject now.

If you upgraded enough parts, BL should be able to do anything, probably 
in much less space and memory.  But we can drop the subject.  Sindi

>  Steven, this is my last post on TV tuner cards. Sorry for the drift 
> off-topic.

> Regards,
>        Ron